Word: signaled
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Passengers on a Capital Airlines flagship bound from Washington to Chicago also watched the series on an airborne TV set. Whenever the airliner got beyond station range, it simply climbed 1,000 feet and picked up the signal again. When the plane was equidistant from two stations in different cities, but on the same channel, the result was not a double image. The stronger station...
Next day, when Boston's Earl Torge-son took a lead off second base, Boudreau again flashed the pick-off signal to the catcher. The catcher relayed it to Pitcher Lemon, who counted three, then wheeled suddenly and pegged the ball towards second. Boudreau, who was also counting to himself, got to the base as the ball did, and tagged Torgeson...
Details were the keynote at Soldier's Field yesterday, but one could sense the steadily rising tension and spirit as the Varsity worked through everything from signal drills to place-kicking...
...first games come after two weeks of more or less intensive conditioning. Two hundred-odd candidates for the eight teams have been put through conditioning and signal drills in an attempt to reduce the chances of injuries in the usually ragged games; and each unit has undergone considerable blackboard work...
...Valpey gave his first and secondstringers a light day--"they had their bumps Saturday"--while he attended to the other half of the squad. After sending in his starters with a little over an hour of signal drill under their belts, he put the rest through 90 minutes of bruising scrimmage...